In them days I just as soon died -- except for my harmonica. It was like a friend who didn't give a damn if I could see or not.

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.

It's very easy to learn. And very difficult to master.

If you've got a good vibrato, you can get away with a lot.

If talk was money, you'd be a millionaire. If thoughts could kill, there'd be no one here.

And your own heart generates enough pressure as it pumps blood throughout your body that it could squirt blood up to 30 feet. (I’ve never tried this, and I don’t recommend it.)

Socialism is politicized envy.

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

Bridge is one of the last games in which the computer is not better.

I'm no day at the beach. And if it is a beach, it's Hampton Beach. Ever been there? It's not nice.

It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something that is in process.

When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.

Expensive quality work doesn't cost more - it pays.

Light and subject is inseparable. But when it is well integrated, it becomes the work of a fine masterpiece.

You appreciate the little details in life once you realize how fragile it isYou respect the afterlife when you realize how powerful it is.